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Conservation and Restoration of Glass is an in-depth guide to the
materials and practices required for the care and preservation of
glass objects. It provides thorough coverage of both theoretical
and practical aspects of glass conservation. This new edition of
Newton and Davison's original book, Conservation of Glass, includes
sections on the nature of glass, the historical development and
technology of glassmaking, and the deterioration of glass.
Professional conservators will welcome the inclusion of
recommendations for examination and documentation. Incorporating
treatment of both excavated glass and historic and decorative
glass, the book provides the knowledge required by conservators and
restorers and is invaluable for anyone with glass objects in their
care.
Conservation and Restoration of Glass is an in-depth guide to the
materials and practices required for the care and preservation of
glass objects. It provides thorough coverage of both theoretical
and practical aspects of glass conservation.This new edition of
Newton and Davison's original book, Conservation of Glass, includes
sections on the nature of glass, the historical development and
technology of glassmaking, and the deterioration of glass.
Professional conservators will welcome the inclusion of
recommendations for examination and documentation. Incorporating
treatment of both excavated glass and historic and decorative
glass, the book provides the knowledge required by conservators and
restorers and is invaluable for anyone with glass objects in their
care.
Much progress has been made in scattering theory since the
publication of the first edition of this book fifteen years ago,
and it is time to update it. Needless to say, it was impossible to
incorporate all areas of new develop ment. Since among the newer
books on scattering theory there are three excellent volumes that
treat the subject from a much more abstract mathe matical point of
view (Lax and Phillips on electromagnetic scattering, Amrein, Jauch
and Sinha, and Reed and Simon on quantum scattering), I have
refrained from adding material concerning the abundant new mathe
matical results on time-dependent formulations of scattering
theory. The only exception is Dollard's beautiful "scattering into
cones" method that connects the physically intuitive and
mathematically clean wave-packet description to experimentally
accessible scattering rates in a much more satisfactory manner than
the older procedure. Areas that have been substantially augmented
are the analysis of the three-dimensional Schrodinger equation for
non central potentials (in Chapter 10), the general approach to
multiparticle reaction theory (in Chapter 16), the specific
treatment of three-particle scattering (in Chapter 17), and inverse
scattering (in Chapter 20). The additions to Chapter 16 include an
introduction to the two-Hilbert space approach, as well as a
derivation of general scattering-rate formulas. Chapter 17 now
contains a survey of various approaches to the solution of
three-particle problems, as well as a discussion of the Efimov
effect."
The normal business of physicists may be schematically thought of
as predic ting the motions of particles on the basis of known
forces, or the propagation of radiation on the basis of a known
constitution of matter. The inverse problem is to conclude what the
forces or constitutions are on the basis of the observed motion. A
large part of our sensory contact with the world around us depends
on an intuitive solution of such an inverse problem: We infer the
shape, size, and surface texture of external objects from their
scattering and absorption of light as detected by our eyes. When we
use scattering experiments to learn the size or shape of particles,
or the forces they exert upon each other, the nature of the problem
is similar, if more refined. The kinematics, the equations of
motion, are usually assumed to be known. It is the forces that are
sought, and how they vary from point to point. As with so many
other physical ideas, the first one we know of to have touched upon
the kind of inverse problem discussed in this book was Lord
Rayleigh (1877). In the course of describing the vibrations of
strings of variable density he briefly discusses the possibility of
inferring the density distribution from the frequencies of
vibration. This passage may be regarded as a precursor of the
mathematical study of the inverse spectral problem some seventy
years later."
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